Leopold van der Pals (1884–1966) wrote a Concertino for Sigurd Raschèr in 1938. The times were difficult—due to his distaste for the Nazi regime, Raschèr moved to the US in 1939, unable to take everything with him. He never performed this work in its orchestral form, perhaps due to the fact that this work is quite short (9 min) and therefore hard to include in concert programmes, but also because this work does not include altissimo notes or slap tonguing.